of desire in readers, one is to the kind of novel serena loves and recognize themselves in their own environment and recreate it on the page that is socially real, documentary kind of quality, not fundamentally in different in aesthetic in the 20th century novel. >> and the other is post modern in spirit that reflects on processes, interrogates its own meanings and so on, serena loves one and tom hayley loved the other. and i wanted them to love each other. >> what i tried to do, let me explain that. serena loves to read novels and have people in it like herself and she likes novels set in london and around about now, in 1972. she wants to see herself reflected back in, and her world reflected back and that is an impulse i actually share too. >> tom, her lover hates all of that kind of writing, he likes, you know, thomas p. ihchot and he likes john bath and gaddis, the great american experimental writers. >> they hate each other's fiction. so i thought the purpose of sweet tooth, the novel, was for me to write the book that they would both love, that would have the tricks, but it would have a fl